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California's Oldest Newspaper - Est. 1851Sat, 01 Aug 2015 00:47:47 -0700hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1By: Phil Veerkamphttp://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/top-to-bottom-review-offered-in-flume-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-771479
Sun, 06 Oct 2013 03:37:18 +0000http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=365212#comment-771479Robert Chapnick, control of 1/3 of our water should have been handed over to . . . . . . . ??? You imply that the flume conveyance ought to have been abandoned. And if you are NOT implying that then the cost of the conveyance (canal, siphons, tunnels, lakes) IS THE COST. It is costly. Robert Chapnick, please toss out an approximation of the cost of loss of 1/3 of our water. Your rear view mirror is . . . from . . . possibly . . . a carnival fun house.
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Sat, 05 Oct 2013 22:25:42 +0000http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=365212#comment-771467Robert…many things have also worked out since the date of your article–2000….be fair.
]]>By: Robert Chapnickhttp://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/top-to-bottom-review-offered-in-flume-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-771466
Sat, 05 Oct 2013 22:19:24 +0000http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=365212#comment-771466Million here million there. Funny how people are fine with their money being spent on the 184 project. Sometimes in life when things seem too good to be true they are. Lets see, we will sell you 3+ lakes a hydroelectric power plant,miles of flume and canal + around 32,000 acre feet of water rights + god knows what else went with it all this for $1? Oh let’s not forget PG&E also also gave them 5 million dollars to help fix the project ready to fall off the mountian. A utility That has been in the power gen business for a long time knows when to dump a money pit. Can you say lemon? Here is a good article before all the this fell off the Internet http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2000/07/17/story4.html?page=all

And people wonder why their bill keeps going up and are almost fine with it. Ask questions people! Like why are all the board of director meetings on weekdays during business hours while you and I are at work? The drama continues…

]]>By: Fran Duchamphttp://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/top-to-bottom-review-offered-in-flume-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-771135
Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:36:54 +0000http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=365212#comment-771135The whole idea behind getting water to masses of people is “incredible.” I admire the people who try to protect our water system. I went to the meetings on “fixing” the flume, the history is so interesting. I could not understand why people were fighting the repairs…I was amazed how long parts had lasted throughout history with such simple materials. I have no answers about pay rates…I am in awe that water comes to me. In mexico–I had to stand on the corner with others, to wait for a water truck to pay for buckets of water daily…once you do that–you really look at things differently.
]]>By: cathttp://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/top-to-bottom-review-offered-in-flume-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-771118
Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:19:07 +0000http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=365212#comment-771118It looks like a pretty ride.
]]>By: Phil Veerkamphttp://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/top-to-bottom-review-offered-in-flume-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-771081
Thu, 03 Oct 2013 02:05:46 +0000http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=365212#comment-771081Cat, you would be lulled to sleep at the leisurely speed of 2 – 3 mph. You would suffer 2nd degree sun burn. You could then sue EID.
]]>By: another way to skin that cathttp://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/top-to-bottom-review-offered-in-flume-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-771079
Thu, 03 Oct 2013 01:53:33 +0000http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=365212#comment-771079While in Hawaii I enjoyed a flume ride. It was $75.00 for the use of a tube and a life jacket. Can’t see why I wouldn’t enjoy the float here any less.
]]>By: Phil Veerkamphttp://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/top-to-bottom-review-offered-in-flume-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-770864
Wed, 02 Oct 2013 02:53:10 +0000http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=365212#comment-770864. . . The only way to prevent . . .
]]>By: Phil Veerkamphttp://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/top-to-bottom-review-offered-in-flume-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-770862
Wed, 02 Oct 2013 02:47:22 +0000http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=365212#comment-770862Next year there will be two new EID board members. All four candidates proclaim as their goal reigning in EID’s spending and debt. It would have been exceedingly prudent for EID to have had all four candidates “in school” on this tour. It would have been useful to the ratepayers who will be choosing two new EID Board members to have had the opportunity to quiz the candidates on the question, “Which of these capital improvements would you have vetoed?” ~~~ IMHO all four are blowing smoke to one degree or another. The only to prevent increasing debt is . . . sadly . . . increasing rates and growth. EID, like it or not, is behind the infrastructure curve. ~~~ Greg Prada? – Richard Englefield? – Dr. Dale Coco? – Jake Flesher?
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